'Seen' in the Bible

Saying, Where is the King of the Jews whose birth has now taken place? We have seen his star in the east and have come to give him worship.

Then Herod sent for the wise men privately, and put questions to them about what time the star had been seen.

And he sent them to Beth-lehem and said, Go and make certain where the young child is; and when you have seen him, let me have news of it, so that I may come and give him worship.

Let your change of heart be seen in your works:

You are the light of the world. A town put on a hill may be seen by all.

Take care not to do your good works before men, to be seen by them; or you will have no reward from your Father in heaven.

And when you make your prayers, be not like the false-hearted men, who take pleasure in getting up and saying their prayers in the Synagogues and at the street turnings so that they may be seen by men. Truly I say to you, They have their reward.

And when these words came to the ears of Jesus he was surprised, and said to those who came after him, Truly I say to you, I have not seen such great faith, no, not in Israel.

And when the evil spirit had been sent out, the man had the power of talking: and they were all surprised, saying, Such a thing has never been seen in Israel.

For by your words will your righteousness be seen, and by your words you will be judged.

But when the green stem came up and gave fruit, the evil plants were seen at the same time.

And when they were coming down from the mountain, Jesus gave them orders, saying, Let no man have word of what you have seen, till the Son of man has come again from the dead.

And he said in answer, Have you not seen in the Writings, that he who made them at the first made them male and female, and said,

Have you any idea what these are saying? And Jesus said to them, Yes: have you not seen in the Writings, From the lips of children and babies at the breast you have made your praise complete?

But all their works they do so as to be seen by men: for they make wide their phylacteries, and the edges of their robes,

Because as in a thunderstorm the bright light coming from the east is seen even in the west; so will be the coming of the Son of man.

And then the sign of the Son of man will be seen in heaven: and then all the nations of the earth will have sorrow, and they will see the Son of man coming on the clouds of heaven with power and great glory.

And coming out of their resting-places, after he had come again from the dead, they went into the holy town and were seen by a number of people.

And he got up, and straight away took up the bed and went out before them all, so that they were all full of wonder, and gave glory to God, saying, We have never seen anything like this.

There is nothing covered which will not be seen openly, and nothing has been made secret which will not come to light.

And those who had seen it gave them an account of what had been done to him who had the evil spirits, and of the fate of the pigs.

And he said to them, How much bread have you? go and see. And when they had seen, they said, Five cakes of bread and two fishes.

And had seen that some of his disciples took their bread with unclean, that is, unwashed, hands.

And while they were coming down from the mountain, he gave them orders not to give word to any man of the things they had seen, till the Son of man had come back from the dead.

Have you not seen this which is in the Writings: The stone which the builders put on one side, the same was made the chief stone of the building:

But as to the dead coming back to life; have you not seen in the book of Moses, about the burning thorn-tree, how God said to him, I am the God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob?

And they, when it came to their ears that he was living, and had been seen by her, had no belief in it.

And after these things he was seen in another form by two of them, while they were walking on their way into the country.

And later he was seen by the eleven themselves while they were taking food; and he said sharp words to them because they had no faith and their hearts were hard, and because they had no belief in those who had seen him after he had come back from the dead.

And when he came out he was not able to say anything, and they saw that he had seen a vision in the Temple; and he was making signs to them without words.

Then the keepers of the sheep went back, giving glory and praise to God for all the things which had come to their ears and which they had seen, as it had been said to them.

And he had knowledge, through the Holy Spirit, that he would not see death till he had seen the Lord's Christ.

For my eyes have seen your salvation,

And wonder overcame them all, and they gave glory to God; and they were full of fear, saying, We have seen strange things today.

And Jesus said, Have you not seen in the Writings what David did when he was in need of food, he, and those who were with him;

And when these things were said to Jesus, he was surprised, and, turning to the mass of people coming after him, said, I have not seen such great faith, no, not in Israel.

And answering them he said, Go back and give news to John of what you have seen, and the things which have come to your ears; the blind now see, those who had no power in their legs are walking, lepers are made clean, those who had no hearing now have their ears open, dead men come to life again, and the poor have the good news given to them.

And those who had seen it gave them an account of how the man who had the evil spirits was made well.

Who were seen in glory and were talking of his death which was about to take place in Jerusalem.

And after the voice was gone they saw that Jesus was by himself. And they kept quiet, and said nothing at that time to anyone of the things which they had seen.

For I say to you that numbers of prophets and kings have had a desire to see the things which you see, and have not seen them, and to have knowledge of the things which have come to your ears, and they had it not.

A curse is on you! for you are like the resting-places of dead men, which are not seen, and men go walking over them without knowledge of it.

For as in a thunderstorm the bright light is seen from one end of the sky to the other, so will the Son of man be when his time comes.

And when he came near the foot of the Mountain of Olives, all the disciples with loud voices gave praise to God with joy, because of all the great works which they had seen;

And it was not there; then they came saying that they had seen a vision of angels who said that he was living.

And they said to them, The Lord has truly come back to life again, and Simon has seen him.

No man has seen God at any time; the only Son, who is on the breast of the Father, he has made clear what God is.

I myself had no knowledge of him, but I came giving baptism with water so that he might be seen openly by Israel.

This, the first of his signs, Jesus did at Cana in Galilee and let his glory be seen openly; and his disciples put their faith in him.

Truly, I say to you, We say that of which we have knowledge; we give witness of what we have seen; and you do not take our witness to be true.

The light is hated by everyone whose acts are evil and he does not come to the light for fear that his acts will be seen.

But he whose life is true comes to the light, so that it may be clearly seen that his acts have been done by the help of God.

He gives witness of what he has seen and of what has come to his ears; and no man takes his witness as true.

So when he came into Galilee, the Galilaeans took him to their hearts because of the things which they had seen him do in Jerusalem at the feast--they themselves having been there at the feast.

And the Father himself who sent me has given witness about me. Not one of you has ever given ear to his voice; his form you have not seen.

But it is as I said to you: you have seen me, and still you have no faith.

And they said, Is not this Jesus, the son of Joseph, whose father and mother we have seen? How is it then that he now says, I have come down from heaven?

Not that anyone has ever seen the Father; only he who is from God, he has seen the Father.

Because no man does things secretly if he has a desire that men may have knowledge of him. If you do these things, let yourself be seen by all men.

I say the things which I have seen in my Father's house: and you do the things which come to you from your father's house.

Then the Jews said to him, You are not fifty years old; have you seen Abraham?

Jesus said in answer, It was not because of his sin, or because of his father's or mother's; it was so that the works of God might be seen openly in him.

Then the neighbours and others who had seen him before in the street, with his hand out for money, said, Is not this the man who got money from people?

In all the years nobody has ever before seen the eyes of a man blind from birth made open.

Jesus said to him, You have seen him; it is he who is talking to you.

Now Jesus had not at this time come into the town, but was still in the place where Martha had seen him.

Then a number of the Jews who had come to Mary and had seen the things which Jesus did had belief in him.

In so far as you have the light, put your faith in the light so that you may become sons of light. With these words Jesus went away and for a time was not seen again by them.

If you had knowledge of me, you would have knowledge of my Father: you have knowledge of him now and have seen him.

Jesus said to him, Philip, have I been with you all this time, and still you have no knowledge of me? He who has seen me has seen the Father. Why do you say, Let us see the Father?

He who has my laws and keeps them, he it is who has love for me: and he who has love for me will be loved by my Father, and I will have love for him and will let myself be seen clearly by him.

Judas (not Iscariot) said to him, How is it that you will let yourself be seen clearly by us and not by the world?

If I had not done among them the works which no other man ever did, they would have had no sin: but now they have seen, and they have had hate in their hearts for me and my Father.

The writing was seen by a number of the Jews, for the place where Jesus was put to death on the cross was near the town; and the writing was in Hebrew and Latin and Greek.

Mary Magdalene went with the news to the disciples, and said she had seen the Lord and that he had said these things to her.

So the other disciples said to him, We have seen the Lord. But he said to them, If I do not see in his hands the print of the nails and put my finger into the print of the nails, and if I do not put my hand into his side, I will never have belief.

Jesus said to him, Because you have seen me you have belief: a blessing will be on those who have belief though they have not seen me!

After these things Jesus let himself be seen again by the disciples at the sea of Tiberias; and it came about in this way.

Now this was the third time that Jesus let himself be seen by the disciples after he had come back from the dead.

And to whom he gave clear and certain signs that he was living, after his death; for he was seen by them for forty days, and gave them teaching about the kingdom of God:

And wonders will be seen in heaven, and signs on the earth, blood and fire and smoke:

For it is not possible for us to keep from saying what we have seen and have knowledge of.

Truly, I have seen the sorrows of my people in Egypt, and their cries have come to my ears, and I have come down to make them free: and now, come, I will send you to Egypt.

Our fathers had the Tent of witness in the waste land, as God gave orders to Moses to make it after the design which he had seen.

And he has seen a man named Ananias coming in and putting his hands on him, so that he may be able to see.

But Barnabas took him to the Apostles and gave them an account of how he had seen the Lord on the road, and had given hearing to his words, and how at Damascus he had been preaching in the name of Jesus without fear.

On the third day God gave him back to life, and let him be seen,

And he gave us an account of how he had seen the angel in his house, saying, Send to Joppa, and get Simon, named Peter, to come to you;

And a great light was seen shining in the room, and an angel of the Lord came to Peter and, touching him on his side so that he came out of his sleep, said, Get up quickly. And his chains came off his hands.

And though no cause of death was seen in him, they made a request to Pilate that he might be put to death.

And for a number of days he was seen by those who came with him from Galilee to Jerusalem, who are now his witnesses before the people.

And when he had seen the vision, straight away we made the decision to go into Macedonia, for it seemed certain to us that God had sent us to give the good news to them.

And they came out of the prison and went to the house of Lydia: and when they had seen the brothers they gave them comfort and went away.

And when they had come, he said to them, You yourselves have seen what my life has been like all the time from the day when I first came into Asia,

You yourselves have seen that with these hands I got what was necessary for me and those who were with me.

For they had seen him before in the town with Trophimus of Ephesus, and had the idea that Paul had taken him with him into the Temple.

For you will be a witness for him to all men of what you have seen and of what has come to your ears.

And they have not seen me in argument with any man in the Temple, or working up the feelings of the people, in the Synagogues or in the town:

Or let these men here present say what wrongdoing was seen in me when I was before the Sanhedrin,

But get up on your feet: for I have come to you for this purpose, to make you a servant and a witness of the things in which you have seen me, and of those in which you will see me;